Family Therapies: A Comprehensive Christian Appraisal
Overview
Christian therapists doing family therapy have never had a resource to help them navigate the various family therapy theories from a Christian perspective–until now. In this book Mark A. Yarhouse and James N. Sells survey the major approaches to family therapy and treat, within a Christian framework, significant psychotherapeutic issues. The wide array of issues covered includes • crisis and trauma • marital conflict • separation, divorce and blended families • individual psychopathology • substance abuse and addictions • gender, culture, economic class and race • sexual identity Calling for an integrated approach of “responsible eclecticism,” they conclude with a vision for Christian family therapy. A landmark work providing critical Christian engagement with existing models of family therapy, this volume was written for those studying counseling, social work, psychology or family therapy. Family Therapies will also serve as an indispensable resource for those in the mental health professions, including counselors, psychologists, family therapists, social workers and pastors.
Top Highlights
“Relational ethics is a set of rules or morals that transcend, guide and direct the three previous dimensions.” (Page 175)
“Bowen’s interest eventually extended beyond the limits of the family of origin. He included the role of the family over time. If the emotional unit of the family was to be understood properly, it would have to understood across generations. After all, where does a person’s ability to manage emotions such as anxiety come from? It is tied to what a person experiences in his or her family of origin—by the type of relationship with one’s parents and how emotional relationships are resolved (or not) in early adulthood (Bowen, 1974). Hence, this approach to family therapy is sometimes referred to as ‘transgenerational’ or ‘intergenerational’ or just ‘Bowenian.’ The transgenerations of Bowenian therapy have emerged from a Bowenian family tradition. The theory is never far from the family.” (Page 72)
“To the Christian, human attachments are not to be the pinnacle of human existence. While they are indeed essential to psychological development, they are a means to a greater and most fundamental end—that of communion with God, their creator.” (Page 164)
“The context is the realm of individual and family realities, and the interaction between individual and family realities. The four modes of contextual expression are facts, individual psychologies, transactions and relational ethics.” (Page 173)
“Strategic family therapy can be understood in three phases, the first is the theoretical stage” (Page 96)
- Title: Family Therapies: A Comprehensive Christian Appraisal
- Authors: Mark A. Yarhouse, James N. Sells
- Publisher: IVP Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2008
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Family psychotherapy › Religious aspects--Christianity; Psychology and religion; Family therapy › methods; Christianity; Religion and psychology
- ISBNs: 9780830878932, 9780830828050, 0830878939, 0830828052
- Resource ID: LLS:FMLYTHRPSCPPRSL
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:00:31Z
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